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January 2018

President's Report

Ovidiu Muresan

Hello everyone!

I’d like to take a moment to wish you all a Happy New Year. I’m sure everyone thoroughly enjoyed the holidays and now you’re ready for a very busy 2018.

Our first meeting of the year is Tuesday January 23, at Crowne Plaza. Hope to see you there. I’ll be the speaker that evening. The technical discussion will be about Legionella Design. As a professional in our industry, you know how important this topic is. My goal in presenting will be to share some plumbing design best practices specific to legionella mitigation. I hope to see you there.

Product show registration is now open. So please go register to ensure you’ll have a secure place. The layout map is not currently active. But you can expect that it will be updated as soon as people start registering for the show.

For next year, the ASPE National Convention will be in Atlanta. Our committee is working hard to prepare for this and has already secured a location for the Golf Outing. I’m pleased to announce that the location will be Stone Mountain. Additional details to follow, so keep an eye out.

If you haven’t yet registered, please go to our website http://aspe-atl.com and join as a member. You can register to all our events for this year through the website. As a reminder, you will receive an email from corressec@aspe-atl.com. Let us know if you don’t receive an email because occasionally these notificaitons will filter into your spam account.

The Board is continuing its program to help young professionals by joining ASPE. If you’re a young professional plumbing engineer and you’d like to enhance your career through ASPE, please let me know and we will be more than glad to help.

Also, please email me directly with any questions and/or suggestions and I’ll try to answer them. If some of the topics become hot items, then we’ll have an open forum and discuss at our monthly meetings.

Thank you for your support

VP Technical Report

Dennis M Connelly

Hello friends and plumbers everywhere,

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season filled with fun, family, gifts, adventures, great feasts, and cozy evenings. I also pray for a healthy and successful 2018 for each of you. On that note, business is booming for us right now! The various project milestone dates keep rolling by at an amazing pace. My hope is that all of you have a great year with plenty of business and great prosperity. In pursuing these goals, I hope that you will include time to invest in ASPE. This chapter is excited about creating opportunities for development that result in your success and advancement.

Join us for a chapter meeting and earn credits for renewing certification as CPD, for example. You could also attend the ASPE Product Show. At this event, you can see the latest products and systems and network with your colleagues and peers. This also provides for another excellent opportunity to earn credits for your CPD recertification. Not to mention our Golf Outings or Skeet Shoot! These are great opportunities for us to fellowship together. However you wish to invest your time, please come and join us as we expand the presence of plumbing engineers throughout Atlanta.

January marks the mid-point of the activities year for Atlanta ASPE. We truly hope you have enjoyed the technical offering thus far. We will have another unique and exciting program this month when we invite our very own Chapter President, Ovidiu Muresan, to provide our tech program. Ovi is a seasoned plumbing engineer who has broad experience in commercial, institutional, and research oriented plumbing systems. He will lead us in a discussion of designing for Legionella. This is not the same program that we have heard repeatedly that tells us about what Legionella is. This presentation will include guidelines for implementation of countermeasures. There will also be examples of actual design concepts and practices that you can use to improve your designs. This is sure to be a great program, so mark your calendars now and plan to attend.

In case you hadn’t noticed, the CPD Exam registration opened on December 1, 2017 and will continue through March 22, 2018. This is a valuable program that will enhance your career and your marketability. I highly recommend that you pursue this goal. The Atlanta Chapter is planning to provide study sessions to help you succeed. So let us know as soon as you are registered and we will add you to our review list.

A final item is our ASPE Mentoring Program. This is an opportunity for senior designers and engineers to share their experience and guidance with our upcoming brethren. Go to https://aspe.org/aspe-mentoring-program and sign up; help our proud and essential industry continue as the plumbing challenges continue to grow.

We are continuing a great year and we want you to be part of it. Be sure to look elsewhere in this newsletter for a list of all upcoming technical programs for 2017-18. Mark your calendars and plan to be there.

Thank you for your support

VP Education Report

julie hadfield

Hello everyone!

Registration for the next CPD exam is open until March 22, 2018. The next exam date is April 5 and 6, 2018. So let’s prepare! We will have a review session locally for the exam in February or March. So keep an eye out for information about the review course. If you are interested in attending the course or teaching a section or two, let me know! Thank you all. I’m excited about 2018 and will see you at our next ASPE dinner meeting.